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Dignity-ing: Magnifying the Social Construction and Consequences of Dignity-Affirming or Dignity-Denying Micro-Interactional Moments
Fri, April 25, 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT (11:40am to 1:10pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 703Session Type: Symposium
Abstract
Dignity is achieved as a social act in situ within the educational encounter: that is, dignity-ing (as a verb). The panelists make this conceptual argument through their fine-grained analyses of social interaction. The resulting “magnified'' micro moments where a learner’s dignity is affirmed or, alternately, denied possess considerable consequentiality in terms of one’s educational experience and personhood. We apply this approach of dignity-ing across a variety of concepts (vulnerability, personhood, encounters, and aesthetics of tension), contexts (afterschool programs, English-medium classrooms, music education and adult jazz ensembles), and geographic locations (Southern, Western, Southwestern US). We reflect on how our analyses of dignity-ing informs the field’s understanding of humanistic pedagogies and, further, contributes to AERA’s collective, ambitious quest for “just educational renewal.”
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Interactional Vulnerabilities and Contingencies of Dignity-ing Work in an After-School Program for Immigrant Youth’s Wellbeing - Inmaculada Maria García Sánchez, University of California - Los Angeles; Amanda Harris, University of California - Los Angeles; Jackson Gzehoviak, University of California - Los Angeles; Jocelyn Meza, University of California - Los Angeles; Kristi Westphaln, University of California - Los Angeles
Dignity-ing in Literacy Events: Multilingual Paraprofessional Teachers and Students Broadening the Construction of Personhood in Instructional Conversations - Faythe Beauchemin, Boston College; Rebecca Carpenter de Cortina, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
“Showing up”: The social accomplishment of skilled action and persistence in a community violin education program - Sarah Jean Johnson, University of Texas - El Paso
The work of improvisational jazz performances as an interactional context for dignity-ing - Ananda M. Marin, University of California - Los Angeles; Shivani Dave, University of California - Los Angeles; Lindsay E. Lindberg, University of California - Los Angeles; Brenda Y. Lopez, California State University - Fullerton